convos with maddalena rose [at two and a half]

(re: a box of trash by the door to go to the dumpster...) "hee go mommy! is happy birthday for you! is a prize for you! (sings quietly) happy day to you... happy... to you... is got bubbles in iiiiiit, is got trash in iiiiit, is got... mo traaash..."

"i love my daddy, mommy."
(heart meltttt, she's so good at that!)

b: "i might have to go to the bathroom." madd: "NOPE! not today! maybe when it's dark out!"

"i look so cute in this shirt! i look like barbie!!"
(i love when she feels pretty!)


b: "God gave me the BEST girl." madd: "where is God?" b: "............." (*i think i said something vague & light about heaven and mentally summoned a lifetime supply of coffee*)

b: "i'm gonna heat up some coffee cake, do you want some?" madd: "i do want some coffee cake. don't take a picture of it." (uh oh... i think she's on to me...)


(in bed one morning, she puts her hand on my cheek...) madd: "i was thinking about you." me: "you were! what about me?" madd: "i was thinking about you... my love."
(...hahahahhaha, okay, princess charming)


(looking out the window as the garbage man pulls up...) "it's the trash man, angel," she gently touches my chin and reports. ;)

"i like your pitty braid, big elsa!" (every time i have a braid, i'm "big elsa," which is maaaybe not quite as cute sounding as when she refers to herself as "tiny anna," haha.)

"oooh, here's my eggplant!!" (she says as she holds up an old blue easter egg)


(in the big bed, maddalena puts her hand on daddy's face...) "i sink he is handsome. i sink he is handsome and cute." <3 <3

"WHERE is my eggplant????? i HAVE to FIND it!!!!!!!"
(she says in an absolute panic, as i realize, mom fail, i'd thrown away her blue easter egg "eggplant" in an effort to quietly de-clutter. it was very quickly replaced with a purple one from the easter stash! gosh, you've never known guilt until your child realizes her eggplant is missing and it's all your fault!)

(walking into my bedroom...) "you've got some pretty pictures. did you organize in here?"
(i mean, where did i get my confidence before she was born?? haha!)


"good morning to you! good morning to you! you look like a monkeyyy, and you smell like... two and a half!" (she loves singing this with me in the mornings, and she's just recently figured out that it's, "and you smell like one, too!" but i liked it the first way, personally!)

(after taking a gummy vitamin and drinking some juice...) "it tastes good, mommy. i love it when you cook!"


"don't be silly, i love you!" (this was her random catch phrase for a night. haha.)

(sitting next to me in bed one evening)
"i love you belly! i love you baby in you belly!"


b & s: "what should we name the new baby brother or sister?" madd: "collipeedee." b & s: "well... okay."

(as soon as i open my eyes, waking up one morning...) madd: "i put my hand in my bottom. wanna smell it?" b: "WHAT?!!?!!!??" (shocking! sooo not a maddalena thing to say! she meant in her diaper... because she had an itch... but... really. oh my.)

(as she holds one of her toy cameras...) "i'm gonna put my pictures on a big, big, big, big blog!"
(YES!)


"i love you in the whoooooole world!!"
(i love you in the whole world, too, baby!!)


(and as our every-morning coffee conversations evolve...)
madd: "want to get up and make coffee?"
b: "iii'm gonna need it!!"
madd: "well, probably so!!"
(i mean, i just can't even sometimes with her bits of adult banter! oh, firstborns...)



...maddalena, girl... i sure love you the mostest!!
(past convos)